The Economic Research Service, USDA, reports that
cash receipts from Florida agricultural products in 1998
amounted to $6.69 billion. This is a 3.8 percent increase from
1997. Cash receipts from all crops increased 4.7 percent from
1997, and cash receipts from all livestock and livestock
products increased by only 0.5 percent.

Receipts from all crops accounted for 80 percent of all
cash receipts. As in previous years, the leading crop commodi
ties were oranges, foliage and floriculture, tomatoes, and
sugarcane. The leading livestock commodities were milk,
cattle and calves, and broilers.

FLORIDA AGRICULTURE
CASH RECEIPTS, 1998

CITRUS

Cash receipts from citrus crops amounted to $1.61 billion
dollars, an increase of 7.8 percent from 1997. Sales of citrus
commodities accounted for 24 percent of all sales in
Florida. (Receipts for citrus are on a "delivered in" basis
without discounting picking and hauling costs.)

Sales of grapefruit were down from $186 million in 1997
to $146 million in 1998. Sales from oranges ($1.35 billion),
tangerines ($76.5 million), and tangelos ($20.3 million) all
increased from the previous year.

VEGETABLES AND MELONS

Cash receipts from vegetable and melon crops amounted
to $1.54 billion in 1998, up 5.3 percent from 1997, and
accounting for almost 23 percent of the total cash receipts.
Potatoes, snap beans, and squash accounted for most of the
increase from last year. Cucumber receipts were down from
1997, as were cabbage, sweet corn, and green peppers.
Receipts for tomatoes, at $506.6 million, accounted for 33
percent of all vegetable and melon receipts and 7.6 percent of
all cash receipts.

FIELD CROPS

Receipts for field crops amounted to $645 million, up
slightly from $636 million last year. Sugarcane, at $472
million, increased 8.8 percent from 1997 and accounts for 73
percent of field crop receipts and 7 percent of all cash
receipts. Hay receipts were virtually the same as in 1997. All
other field crops produced lower receipts in 1998 than in 1997.

LIVESTOCK

Total cash receipts from livestock and livestock products
were $1.33 billion, up just slightly from the previous year, and
accounted for almost 20 percent of all cash receipts. Milk
receipts accounted for 32 percent of the receipts in this
category, followed by cattle and calves (22 percent) and
broilers (19 percent).

Value added to the U.S. Economy by the Florida Agricultural Sector via
the Production of Goods and Services, 1994-98 1/

Item

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

Thousand dollars

Final crop output

4,861,338

4,848,653

5,102,096

5,123,248

5,343,106

Food grains

1,717

1,255

1,534

2,072

1,509

Feed crops

25,070

24,642

32,825

29,477

21,908

Cotton

37,916

38,598

44,171

43,987

34,359

Oil crops

65,860

57,695

72,641

71,652

62,331

Tobacco

27,248

30,907

31,021

32,293

29,942

Fruits and tree nuts

1,619,356

1,716,441

1,749,072

1,697,685

1,836,163

Vegetables

1,448,816

1,325,702

1,354,966

1,459,558

1,536,371

All other crops

1,628,470

1,655,059

1,793,611

1,779,412

1,832,033

Home consumption

3,072

3,072

3,072

3,072

3,072

Value of inventory
adjustment 2/

3,813

(4,718)

19,183

4,040

(14,582)

Final animal output

1,221,915

1,117,040

1,285,461

1,365,849

1,372,230

Meat animals

348,328

299,558

234,455

332,885

299,226

Dairy products

408,408

363,528

431,280

407,715

423,878

Poultry and eggs

291,605

315,277

362,760

353,838

367,313

Miscellaneous livestock

146,262

156,015

274,809

305,113

316,932

Home consumption

2,036

1,664

1,361

1,483

1,364

Value of inventory
adjustment 2/

25,276

(19,002
)

(19,204
)

(35,185
)

(36,483
)

Services and forestry

251,688

275,089

278,894

321,881

313,812

Machine hire and
customwork

31,166

28,182

30,587

35,883

30,849

Forest products sold

15,000

15,000

15,000

15,000

15,000

Other farm income

63,077

77,383

79,828

114,050

111,387

Gross imputed rental
value of farm dwellings

142,445

154,525

153,480

156,948

156,577

Final agricultural sector output

6,334,940

6,240,782

6,666,452

6,810,979

7,029,148

Less: Intermediate
consumption outlays

2,493,422

2,768,153

2,969,404

2,992,230

3,043,412

Farm origin

551,304

586,021

629,532

625,244

627,895

Feed purchased

292,463

313,297

323,247

306,517

293,722

Livestock and poultry
purchased

55,765

51,473

43,682

38,138

49,242

Seed purchased

203,076

221,251

262,603

280,589

284,931

Manufactured inputs

763,366

840,509

874,510

931,936

926,575

Fertilizers and lime

288,840

307,948

331,904

342,115

349,685

Pesticides

326,893

358,895

377,661

404,573

394,521

Petroleum fuel and oils

102,772

112,691

126,719

131,740

119,768

Electricity

44,861

60,975

38,226

53,508

62,601

Other intermediate
expenses

1,178,752

1,341,623

1,465,362

1,435,050

1,488,942

Repair and maintenance
of capital items

170,426

170,381

199,274

168,354

163,568

Machine hire and
customwork

109,126

155,571

163,374

119,476

125,859

Marketing, storage, &
transportation expenses

266,056

278,600

357,508

323,114

386,984

Contract labor

216,497

301,220

392,109

402,205

411,786

Miscellaneous expenses

416,647

435,851

353,097

421,901

400,745

Plus: Net government
transactions

(130,091
)

(139,229
)

(174,742
)

(183,318
)

(186,113
)

+ Direct Government
payments

58,588

55,045

22,842

19,044

24,918

- Motor vehicle
registration & licensing
fees

5,217

5,550

3,704

4,309

6,116

- Property taxes

183,462

188,724

193,880

198,053

204,915

Gross value added

3,711,428

3,333,400

3,522,306

3,635,431

3,799,622

Less: Capital consumption

271,563

274,046

276,781

275,267

277,168

Net value added

3,439,865

3,059,354

3,245,525

3,360,164

3,522,454

Less: Factor payments

1,132,904

1,172,194

1,226,654

1,246,419

1,296,608

Employee compensation
(total hired labor)

778,498

812,249

822,248

851,188

894,369

Net rent received by
nonoperator landlords

34,801

34,520

48,656

34,099

30,578

Real estate and nonreal
estate interest

319,605

325,425

355,750

361,132

371,661

Net farm income

2,306,961

1,887,160

2,018,871

2,113,745

2,225,846

1/ Final sector output is the gross value of the commodities and services produced within a year. Net value-added is the sector's
contribution to the National economy and is the sum of the income from production earned by all factors-of-production. Net farm
income is the farm operators' share of income from the sector's production activities. The concept presented is consistent with that
employed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.2/ A positive value of inventory change represents current-year production not sold by December 1. A negative value is an offset to production from prior years included in current-year sales.